When it comes to romantic relationships, people ruthlessly discriminate and make an endless number of subjective judgments. Most agree that it is absurd to regulate these relationships while not realizing that the same is true of all business relationships as well.
The Supreme Court case of Michigan v. EPA illustrates how the law provides so many tools to federal agencies that their power is more or less unlimited. It's only a matter of finding which laws will stick, and the result is lawlessness.
The debate over the freedom to discriminate has flared up again in Indiana where the conflict is being framed as a dispute between Christians and gays. In truth, the matter hinges only on whether or not people should be allowed to exercise private property rights.
Interviewed by host Phil Pepin, Mark Thornton discusses the fed’s rol
The opponents of technological innovation in free markets have been with us for a long time. A century ago, Gustave de Molinari was defending the automobile from the technology haters of his day. Little has changed since then.
For those new to Austrian economics, there are few modern scholars whose work I would recommend more enthusiastically than Salerno’s.
The Loyola economics club hosted a debate between economics professor Walter Block and law professor Bill Quigley on the minimum wage. The debate was held on 2/24/15.
In my recent article on net neutrality, I explained that more FCC control of the internet merely invites more control from powerful interest groups. Now, we know more about which interest groups are presently exercising power since, as The Daily Caller notes, the FCC regs favorably cite the anti-free-market left-wing Soros-funded group "Free Press" 62 times.
